Re: Anti-Matt?
[email protected] (John Erjavec V)
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Rich Bowen wrote: > A comment just made on the Advocacy list just got me thinking. Seems > that it would be nice to have a collection of Anti-Matt scripts - > Well-written alternatives to Matt Wright's programs that will > gracelessly die on January 1, 19100. I have an alternative to wwwboard, > and I'm sure that most of us have something that serves the same purpose > as formmail.pl, except that it will work next month. > > The discussion board thing is a tarball, and so won't work in the > Scripts section just yet. But it would be very nice to have some of the > other things, so that when we see people using Matt's code, we have > something else to point them towards. > > We've been making fun of Matt's code for several years now, but the fact > is that there is no nice convenient place to go for alternatives. And > whether or not we think that guestbooks and counters are useful things > to have, the fact is that a lot of people out there want them, and Matt > Wright is providing them. > > It would indeed be a good service to the unwashed masses of Perl users > (note, not Perl programers, but Perl users) out there, if when we say > "never use anything by Matt", we could say "instead, use the stuff in > the Scripts/CGI section of CPAN. > > Thoughts? I'm going to start looking through some stuff I have laying > around and see if I can scrape together some stuff to upload. Does > anyone else think that this is a good idea? Oooh. I like this. I'm going to have to look into my bag, to see what I can put out as well. Since this is a script collection, it would be the best place for it, and I _do_ like the idea of having someplace to point the requestors to... -JEV -- John Erjavec V ## [email protected] http://www.jevonline.com/jev/index.html "I'll say it again for the logic impaired." --Larry Wall